Short: Desktop calculator for complex numbers
Author: thomas.radtke@uni-essen.de
Uploader: thomas radtke uni-essen de
Type: misc/math or misc/edu
Replaces: ci.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
new in this release (97/06/26):
some functions, variables, new constants pi and last
Hi #?,
This is ci, the desktop calculator for operations
on complex numbers. To install, just copy it to c: or
anywhere else in your command path. Call it with 'ci'
and leave it by pressing 'Ctrl-\' (control backslash, EOF).
ci accepts inputs in the conventional manner, that
is, real and imaginary part are seperated by addition or
subtraction. The imaginary part is multiplied or divided
by i (square root of -1).
ci knows the following operators:
a+b, a-b, a*b, a/b - the usual
a^b - exponentiation
@a - mean argument (angle)
|a| - modulus
~a - complex conjugation
ci knows the following constants:
i - square root of -1
e - Euler number
pi - pi
last - value of last expression
(this is a const for technical
reasons only, i.e. the user may
not change it)
ci knows the following functions:
re(z) - returns the real part of z
im(z) - returns the imaginary part of z
exp(z)
sqrt(z)
sin(z)
cos(z)
sinh(z)
cosh(z)
ci understands assignments to variables (e.g. a1_2=1)
Every trigonometric operation can be acomplished with the
exponentiation operator, e.g.:
sin(x) == (e^(z*i)-e^(-z*i))/(2*i)
Of course, any root can be computed too, e.g.:
n-th root of a == a^(1/n)
Examples:
$ ci
>-1^(1/2)
6.123032e-17+i*1.000000e+00 2^2
4.000000e+00+i*0.000000e+00
>e^(4*i+2)
-4.829809e+00+i*-5.592056e+00
>|1+i|
1.414214e+00+i*0.000000e+00
>@(1+i)
7.853982e-01+i*0.000000e+00
>(2+3*i)*(i^2)
-2.000000e+00+i*-3.000000e+00
The parser for ci was generated by 'bison'.
You may ask for improvements, but please understand that
I didn't have the time to answer all incoming mails immediatley.
Let me know if you are using ci for educational or other purposes
on a regulary (once a week or so) basis.
bye,
Thomas